Iwishiwasntthisway [none/use name] @ Iwishiwasntthisway @hexbear.net

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They are taught they are Arabians for Arabia. They think when Islam spread through the region they just killed everyone, even the women. They seem to conceive of all geopolitics and history in tribal terms.

How much of that "aid" is basically just buying up the parts they plan to keep from Russia after negotiations and plunging it into serfdom.

The amount of times I have seen these people mock dead children is horrifying. And not just on those telegram channels, pretty much any medium with a comment section that shows suffering from Gaza will attract a handful of these people saying the most disgusting things. That, or they'll claim it's fake when it clearly couldn't be, or even worse that the parents are mutilating their own children just to make "Jews look bad".

These types of images existed during Afghanistan and Iraq, albeit not in nearly the same volume. When CNN had a comments section, I can't remember a time when Americans were saying things like that to footage of dead and dying children, on the rare occasion we'd see it.

They will also do some of the most insane mental gymnastics to justify war crimes. When the Julian Assange leaks came out, or stories of weddings being droned, Americans might have said something about "bad apples" or "honest mistakes".

I got into an argument with some Hasbot over a video of an older male civilization being killed. They claimed that the soldier murdering the civilian lost family on Oct 7. When I asked the soldier's name and the name of the family member lost, since such records exist, the response was literally "Well I don't know for sure the soldier lost family on Oct 7, but he could have, why don't you have any empathy for him?" They literally conceive of killing non combatants in cold blood the same way you might think of punching a wall when angry.

I'm new here. Why are you doing this to yourself?

I once went 12 years. The hygienist cringed when she heard this, and then sighed with relief when she saw my mouth, which had some plaque but wasn't a horror show.

This is self evident to us extraverts without scruples.

Yeah as much as I don't want to be charitable to colonists, disease really did a lot of the heavy lifting in the new world. Like estimates of 80%-95% especially in the northern latitudes. And imagine what society would become like if almost everybody was dying too fast to clean up. Everything would cease to function. The closest real life could ever get to zombie fiction

I don't know where/how you got that from what I said. Where did I say something was " unproblematic" or anything of the sort

This would be like if cops in uniform were openly helping people commit hate crimes, as directed by the state publicly. Are they all EQUALLY at fault?

What good is "sanctioning" individuals and leaving the apparatus that creates, protects, and rewards them?

I mean, he has a point. If this is a systemic issue then it's the whole state that's the problem, not the actual settlers.

I was refreshing r/Israel last night and I saw 3 posts expressing anxiety and despair deleted in minutes.

Involved in what capacity? I don't think a lot of Americans are going to coming home in boxes. The ideal scenario is to use Israel like Ukraine. Keep the weapons grift going in a way the minimizes domestic problems.

And fueling all those planes that were circling around for like days.

I'm 36 so I was leaving college at that time. And yeah, it was hard to get an entry level job in a way that hadn't happened before

But compared to now, it was a great time to be young. Starbucks paid 12 bucks an hour, you could make like 18 an hour answering phones, make 200-300 FOH most weekend shifts. Renting a room in South Philly was 500 bucks. A one bedroom in a non door man building was like 800. PBR was 1-2 bucks. I fed myself for 30 bucks a week.

It's significantly worse now than it was then.